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Friday, July 29, 2011

Happiness in the form of a blog

Obviously the cat is out of the bag and I have a new blog name and look. Thank you for all who said you loved it. I’m quite partial to it. It’s amazing how much thought goes into choosing a new name. I did A LOT of brainstorming for names, came up with a ton of different ones and hashed them out with my momma and ultimately chose Amazing grapes, which I actually find pretty funny. The play on the word…and it does have another meaning to me personally, but alas, it’s personal.

It fits me perfectly and is an easy transition to my “future life” if that may come about at some point in time.

Back in June, I won an amazing giveaway from the lovely and brand new mother, Blair with wild and precious. She gave me a free banner and button (my first ever! grab it, it’s yours!) from the ever so sweet Kris with behold the metatron. I had to wait for my surgery and recovery to pass as well as wait for the grapes to grow in the vineyards so it took well over a month to begin ‘the making.’

Kris was great to work with, letting me ask a bunch of questions and really listened to what I wanted, tweaking things to just how I wanted and I couldn’t be happier. I highly recommend Kris to anyone who wants a complete new look or just a couple things here and there to make your blog look fresh and new! By the way, she just had a birthday Wednesday AND just got engaged a couple days before that (great week, I’d say) so make sure you tell her congrats!

I can’t tell you all how happy having this little here blog has made me. I’m realizing I enjoy writing a lot and then you all have such sweet things to say and the encouragement…its really made me enjoy it even more. Definitely can’t say enough about you guys!

Today I’m off to my parents house for the big birthday weekend. I don’t know what we’ll be doing but I’ll be spending it with my parents, sis and her family, so I have no doubt I will have a great time. I hope you lovelies have a wonderful weekend. I’ll leave you with pictures of my 29th birthday.We went to Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii

An active volcano that I don’t remember what its called. G-man would know..

Actual lava flowing from beneath. It was so neat to see. Big thanks to my zoom lens for this!

Lava pouring into the ocean

For the record, that helicopter shouldn’t be that close to us. The smoke is from the trees on fire from the lava.

Afterward, we took the long drive to the cliffs

I’m such a rebel

My attempt to take a picture of us on a timer with the lava that covered the road. It cut our heads off. The sun had set, so putting it on the ground was the only way to get a picture. People walking by said I was dedicated as I was lying on the road before jumping up and running to G-man.

15 comments:

This being your actual due date, 30 years ago, I was hoping you would wait to show up so I could watch Charles & Diana's wedding. I was afraid I would miss the 'wedding of the century'. Of course, being such an obedient, agreeable child, you waited and came 3 hrs & 2 min. past the date. So, as per goofy tradition...Happy Due Date!!! I'm so glad you're my daughter!